'What it Means to be Palestinian' by Dina Matar
October 25, 2012 18:00
Published:
October 18, 2012 21:16
by University Of Nottingham Palestinian Society |
A42 Clive Granger Building, University Park, University of Nottingham
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What it Means to be Palestinian by Dina Matar
Dr Dina Matar, Senior Lecturer in Arab Media and Political Communication at SOAS will speak on the subject of Palestinian identity based on her latest book What it Means to be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood'
The Events is co-sponsored by the Palestinian Society and the the International Consortium for the Study of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Reconciliation
'What It Means to be Palestinian is a narrative of narratives, a collection of personal stories, remembered feelings and reconstructed experiences by different Palestinians whose lives were changed and shaped by history. Their stories are told chronologically through particular phases of the Palestinian national struggle, providing a composite autobiography of Palestine as a landscape and as a people. The book begins with the 1936 revolt against British rule in Palestine and ends in 1993, with the Oslo peace agreement that changed the nature and form of the national struggle. It is based on in-depth interviews and conversations with Palestinians, male and female, old and young, rich and poor, religious and secular, in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel and the Occupied Territories. Presented as remembered personal narratives and as "social" histories, these conversations provide a deep and intimate account of what it means to be Palestinian in the 21st century.'
"These are accounts of ordinary people who have striven through the harrowing experience of war and futile negotiation, searching for a life and a place that the rest of the world will respect and protect." -- Jon Snow
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